A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi

JAPAN - In July 1991, a Muslim murdered Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese man who translated "The Satan
Verses" into Japanese. He was stabbed to death in Tokyo. A Muslim living in Britain - Abdul Quddus,
who is a senior vice president of Britain's Muslim league, said, "The attacks are justified because people
translating the book are also insulting the faith."
NIGERIA - In Oct. 1991, thousands of Muslims attacked Christian churches, businesses, and homes in
Kano, Nigeria. Kano is in northern Nigeria, which is predominately Muslim. It was estimated that 300
Christians were murdered by Muslim mobs. Muslims were upset because Christian evangelists had been
converting Muslims in the region to Christianity.
In northern Kaduna state, more than 400 people were killed in rioting instigated by Muslim religious
leaders who recently committed themselves to peace and reconciliation, and hundreds of homes and
businesses, and at least six Anglican churches were destroyed by arson. Enraged after a Nigerian
newspaper ran an article claiming Muhammad would probably have married one of the contestants of the
Miss World contest, Muslims burnt down the newspaper offices. Rioters chanting "Allahu Akbar"
barricaded streets with burning tires, and began looting and burning homes and businesses. Christian
citizens were stabbed, beaten to death and even burnt alive. At the height of the riots Muslim youths
operated roadblocks, checking the religious identity of motorists and viciously attacking any Christians
they found." Our people are being shot, butchered and roasted," Bishop Josiah Fearon of the Diocese of
Kaduna reported to a friend. Bishop Josiah believes the ‘Miss World’ article merely provided an excuse
for the violence, which in reality was instigated for more sinister political reasons. Across North and
Middle Belt Nigeria Muslim activists have successfully lobbied for the expansion of Shari’ah. Eleven
states have now adopted full Shari’ah to the detriment of their non-Muslim minorities who have begun to
see their freedoms eroded. However in Kaduna state, where Muslims and Christians are roughly equal in
numbers, Governor Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi has resisted the demands for full Shari’ah instead
allowing for a more limited expansion applying it only in Muslim-majority areas. This has infuriated
Islamic religious leaders who are trying to oust him from office. The article provided Muslim leaders with
just the excuse they needed. By unleashing terrible violence against Christians they hope to instigate a
crisis which will result in the governor’s removal.
In Dec. 2003 a student-led Islamic sect (Al Sunna Wal Jamma) launched an armed uprising with the
aim of setting up a Taliban-style Muslim state in northern Nigeria. The group attacked the police stations
in Kanamma and nearby Geidam, killing two policemen, stripping the buildings of guns and ammunition
and burning them to the ground. They then retreated to a primary school in Kanamma where they hoisted
the Taliban flag of Afghanistan. At least 18 people were killed.
Guardian Unlimited UK – Jos, Nigeria - Feb 26, 2004 - At least 48 people have been killed in the latest
outbreak of religious violence in Plateau state, central Nigeria, the police said to Reuters yesterday. They were
hacked down on Tuesday when Muslim warriors attacked Yelwa town in the mainly Christian district of
Shendam. The Plateau police commissioner, Ilozuoke, told reporters: "The victims were pursued to a church
they ran to for refuge and were killed … forty-eight of them died instantly." Security sources said the attackers'
guerrilla tactics suggested that they were hired mercenaries from Nigeria's northern neighbors, Chad and Niger.
Mr Ilozuoke said troops and police had been sent to the area to try to contain the violence, but no arrests had yet
been made. More than 100 people have been killed in clashes between Christians and Muslims in southern
Plateau in the past two years: in 2001 more than 1,000 were killed. And about 10,000 have died in communal
and religious violence in Nigeria since 15 years of military rule ended in 1999.
PAKISTAN - When the Muslims in Pakistan found a torn up Qur’an in a mosque, 30,000 Muslims attacked the only majority Christian town
(Shanti Nagar) in Pakistan and destroyed over half of it in 1996. Churches were burned, businesses were destroyed, and women and girls
were raped. The army had to come in to stop the Muslims. A worldwide outcry against the action prompted Pakistan's Prime Minister to help rebuild
the Christian homes, churches, and businesses that were destroyed.
[Note: This action was not the work of an organized terrorist group; rather it was a display of pure, real Islam as
the majority of average simple Muslims in the region understood it. There was no Bin Laden leading the effort, no
Hamas or Hezbollah orchestrating the action, it was ordinary Muslims, 30,000 of them, attacking a Christian
village, because they thought that some Christian had torn up a Qur’an.]
PHILIPPINES - In the Philippines, the Abu Sayyaf specializes in kidnappings and beheadings of
hostages in their terrorist campaign against the predominantly Catholic central government. In mid-1972,
partisan political violence was generally divided along religious lines and gripped all of Mindanao and the